Health & Human Wellbeing

Human Coach

A Sentence, Not A Chapter

Hero' Journey, Life

Setbacks can be very difficult…

Scratch that….

Setbacks are very difficult.

You’re ticking along nicely. The past is the past. Over. You’re winning, making progress, moving forward. Then, suddenly, from one day to the next you’re not. You’re back to feeling like you used to, which is not how you want to be feeling. And it hurts – it hurts emotionally, psychologically, spiritually. In a moment of real darkness things can feel pointless again, and really unfair and undeserved, especially if you’ve been doing everything right. It feels like you’re at square one – again – as if somehow you looped back to the same mountains of challenge and pain you once put everything you had to overcome… and now you have to climb them again. Again.

Am I right back where I started?

No. No, you are not.

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Carb Confusion

Diet

If there’s one thing people are most curious about concerning other people’s health habits, it’s food. Nowhere in the health and wellness space are there clearer lines drawn in the sand. I get asked a lot what I eat, and aside from the meat-conception, there is another great misconception. This week alone three separate people have assumed my paleo with a keto lean food regiment means that I do not eat carbs. This is very wrong. I eat a ton of carbs. Of the three major food macros – protein, carbohydrates, fats – I actually probably eat mostly carbs. The carb confusion centers around what carbohydrates one could possibly consume besides the breads and the pastas.

The confusion is that carbs equal wheat. 

But there are so many more carbs.
And so many better carb.
Not only better tasting but
far more nutritious and health promoting.

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Hang On

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Hero' Journey, Life

There’s a part of every healing journey never talked about. It’s not glamorous, it can’t be sold and it goes against the grain of our culture of doing. It’s the part of the journey that requires nothing but being. It’s full of grace and power. It’s the part that actually gets you through any challenge including the seemingly impossible, multi-year ordeal that was my chronic fatigue survival and recovery. And it’s a part every single one of us, you included, has within us.

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The Most Overlooked Healing Power

Life

When I tell people how terrific the latest episode of Russell Brand’s podcast was, here’s how a reaction typically plays out: first, in a baffled tone, the underpodcasted South African asks me a variation of “what’s a podcast” and why in heavens would I be listening to one, and second, with a twinge of jugdement, offers me a variation of their distaste for Russell Brand. Here is my rebuttal. And here is how Brand is a messenger for the most overlooked healing human power.

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What’s Good For Gaia Is Good For YOU  

Diet, Health, Life

Climate change has been front and center over the past several weeks. In my life personally and globally with millions of people in thousands of city having had enough and taken to the streets demanding governments worldwide do something to save humanity (and most other life) from possible extinction.

Yes, extinction.

This is not an extreme exaggeration. Humanity is in a crisis, emergency situation. The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) latest report is clear on the science and on their conclusion- humans must act now or face gruesome, catastrophic consequences. One of these being mass food shortages. Which pertains to our topic –

how climate conscious eating = healthy eating.

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